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Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional
A Guidebook
Series: Helping Children with Feelings
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Ideal for educators, mental health professionals, and parents seeking to understand and assist children struggling with anxiety or obsessional behaviours.
A guidebook to help children who: are insecure or worry too much; suffer from phobias or nightmares; find it difficult to concentrate to let go and have fun; have suffered a trauma; are worryingly good or seem like little adults; and, use order and routine as a way of coping with 'messy' feelings.
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Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional is a guidebook designed to assist children with a variety of concerns and challenges. It is especially aimed at children who:
- are insecure or worry excessively, suffering from phobias or nightmares;
- struggle to concentrate, unable to let go and have fun;
- have experienced trauma or appear unnaturally good, like little adults;
- use order and routine as coping mechanisms for managing 'messy' feelings;
- withdraw into dullness as a means of navigating their existence in the world;
- and develop obsessive-compulsive behaviour to fend off overwhelming emotions.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780863884542
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 January 2001
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Speechmark Publishing Ltd
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Nicky Armstrong
Audience: Primary and secondary education, Professional and scholarly, Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 297.0mm
Weight: 220g
Pages: 72
About the Author
Margot Sunderland is Founding Director of the Centre for Child Mental Health, London. She is also Head of the Children and Young People Section of The United Kingdom Association for Therapeutic Counselling. In addition, she formed the research project, ‘Helping Where it Hurts’ which offers free therapy and counselling to troubled children in several primary schools in North London. She is a registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and registered Child Therapeutic Counsellor, Supervisor and Trainer. Margot is also Principal of The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education – a fully accredited Higher Education College running a Diploma course in Child Therapy and Masters Degree courses in Arts Psychotherapy and Arts in Education and Therapy. Margot is a published poet and author of two non-fiction books – one on Dance (Routledge Theatre Arts, New York and J Garnet Miller, England) and the other called Draw on Your Emotions (Speechmark Publishing, Milton Keynes and Erickson, Italy).
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